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Thirteen pot shops in British Columbia, including at least one in Victoria, have been threatened with police raids in a Health Canada crackdown. The federal agency says it’s sent letters to a total of 13 compassion clubs and dispensaries ordering them to stop selling or advertising the drug.

Rihanna hosted one of the biggest New York Fashion Week kickoff parties ever, and all her famous friends were invited. Tabloid media revealed that the 27-year-old songstress invited all her celeb friends, including Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Joe Jonas, Gigi Hadid, The Weeknd, Pharrell and Candice Swanepoel, reports TMZ.com.

Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, from Orange Park, Florida, is in custody, accused of plotting to place a bomb at a weekend event in Kansas City that commemorates the September 11, 2001 attacks. Joshua Ryne Goldberg reportedly began talking online with an FBI informer in July – and gave them information on how to build a bomb with a pressure cooker, …

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry has suspended his run for the White House, becoming the first major Republican candidate to leave the field. Speaking Friday before a private conservative organization in St. Louis, Missouri, known as the Eagle Forum, Perry said he would step aside with no regrets and referred to the candidates who remain in the race as a …

After faking a gay sex scandal to cover up an affair, Michigan state Rep. Todd Courser (R) resigned and Rep. Cindy Gamrat (R) was expelled from the Michigan House early Friday morning. “I felt is was the appropriate thing to do. I put everybody through a whole bunch, my family, constituents and the people in this room,” Courser said, according …

A shooting incident has taken place at Union Station in Washington, D.C. A security guard shot and wounded a man at the District’s Union Station Friday, and the incident has no connection to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to police.

Valery Spiridonov, believes a head transplant is his best hope. The 30-year-old Russian suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a severe type of spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative muscle disease. Sergio Canavero says a full head transplant is Spiridonov’s only chance to overcome his condition. Since his muscular atrophy is advancing at a rapid pace, having his head detached from his body …

Joyce Mitchell breaks her silence and speaks to Matt Lauer in her first-ever interview. In the NBC News exclusive, Mitchell, the New York prison seamstress who pled guilty to helping two inmates escape, tells Lauer, “I just got in over my head.”

Nicole Arbour, a Vlogger and comedian, prompted outrage with her six minute “fat-shaming” video, ‘Dear Fat People’, which criticised overweight people for claiming they are discriminated against.

Visits to the emergency department for anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that can be life threatening, nearly doubled over 7 years as awareness improved, a new Canadian report suggests. Emergency department visits for both allergies and anaphylaxis rose to over seven thousand a year by 2014. A jump from just over five thousand in 2009.

At least 87 people have died after a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Another 184 people have been injured when the crane fell in what Al Arabiya television said were strong storms. The Grand Mosque is the largest in the world and surrounds Islam’s holiest place, the Kaaba.